RENEWABLE ENERGY

        So we were given a task about renewable energy, its advantages, and disadvantages. Here are the files we created as a group in a document and PowerPoint display.

RENEWABLE ENERGY (DOCUMENT)

RENEWABLE ENERGY (PPT)

Biography (Harriet Tubman)

 In this post, I am going to answer several questions that were tasked and create a short bioraphy of Harriet Tubman.

    So from the source that I have, mentions and explains all of Harriet Tubman's early life, achievements, and death. It also tells all about her values and what she fought for in her life.

    So I got several points and lessons that is truly amazing about Harriet Tubman.  think what is amazing is that it teaches me to not be selfish. Harriet Tubman herself could have escaped on her own from slavery on the underground railroad. However, she went back and escaped together with her friends and families and risked her life so that everybody can escape.

There were also several valuable lessons that I got from Harriet Tubman. I learned that we should fight for our freedom. Just like Harriet Tubman made her own way to fight for her freedom using the underground railroad, we need to fight for our freedom and for our own sake, not anybody's sake. Also, like the last paragraph, it teaches me to not be selfish and always care for others.

    Harriet Tubman was an African-American woman that was enslaved in Maryland, along with her families and friends. They were all very poorly treated by the white people who enslaved them, which is why Harriet Tubman has a lot of wounds that would later affect the rest of her life, including her own death. They were all distributed to different white people so they have to work separately from her family. So finally she decided to find her own freedom without her family as they were concerned for their bounty. But not long after that, she went back to Maryland along with her families and friends so they can all be free. She then joined John Brown, where together they wanted to destroy the institution of slavery. She then became an expedition leader to save more people from slavery. This is why she was called the "Moses" of her time. She eventually died at the age of 93 due to all her wounds from her early days when she was a slave, as she was constantly tortured, there were several permanent injuries that eventually caused her death.

Source:

https://www.biography.com/activist/harriet-tubman

English Procedure Text - Screen Recording On Laptop/PC Using QuickTime Player

         So we were told to make a procedure text in the form of a video for our English task. We were free to choose whatever topics that we liked/ wanted to do.

        So I picked a procedure text about screen recording. I know that this is a fairly easy task for most of us, especially teachers and students, and I don't think anyone has a problem with it. However, in this online study, I think that some assignments required the students and teachers to record their own screen and complete certain tasks.

        I'm sure that there are more topics that are more interesting and harder. But I wanted to show people the best and simplest way of making a screen recording on a PC/Laptop. Since I think most people are already familiar with screen recording on their mobile phones, so I decided to make a procedure text about screen recording on a Laptop/PC.

        In my experience, I really think that QuickTime Player is the simplest and best for making recordings, including other types of recording such as a movie recording, an audio recording, and a screen recording. The platform is easy enough to understand that I don't have to google how it works and so on. Not to mention that the features are only a few, so it wasn't really hard to understand the platform and using it. I don't know if there are any easier platforms out there, but in my several screen recording applications, QuickTime Player is the easiest.

Steps:

1. Download QuickTime Player if you don't have the app.

2. Open the app to see your downloaded or made videos and right-click if you want to record.

3. Choose the option that you want. Movie recording is to record like a camera, audio recording is for recording audio-only, and screen recording is for recording your screen.

4. You will see a small rectangle icon. Select the audio in which you want your voice to be recorded by clicking the down arrow. There are several options depending on your devices. Choose one that you want to record your voice from.

5. Click on the red circle button on the rectangle icon.

6. After that, click on the screen you want to record on. To make sure your screen has started recording, right-click on the QuickTime Player icon and you will see there is an option of "Stop Recording".

7. Right-click again if you have done your screen recording and select the "Stop Recording" button.

8. You will see a preview of the screen recording that you have just done. Click on the close button on the top-left edge of the preview and click save to save your screen recording, and delete to delete your screen recording. Make sure to rename your screen recording and place it on the spot where you can easily remember.

9. To find your screen recording, go to File Explorer or Finder and go to the place where you saved your screen recording.

10. If you want to insert it to a video editing software, press import media and select the screen recording in the place where you saved your screen recording.

Tips:

1. Make sure to make it simple. Don't complicate stuff and do what you don't have to do.

2. Don't make silly mistakes. Don't forget to save your screen recording, don't misclick, and so on.

3. Save your video in a place that you remember. If you don't, you might have a long time to find the screen recording again.

4. Always remember to title your video. If you are already familiar, you might find the screen recording just fine. However, if you are still new at this, and you don't know how to find the screen recording, or you have a lot of other files that are untitled, you might waste a lot of time to find the screen recording or maybe you cannot even find it. So remember, always name your file.

THE VIDEO ON HOW TO SCREEN RECORD ON LAPTOP/PC USING QUICKTIME PLAYER:
Screen Record Laptop/PC Using QuickTime Player Link

Nico's Weg

     So in this post, I am going to write a review of a German film titled "Nico's Weg". This is a film which we are tasked to watch and make a review of.

    So it all started with a person named Nico who has just arrived in Germany from Sevilla, Spain. However, just shortly after going out of the airport, Nico left his bag alone and a taxi driver mistook the bag for its customer. Then, a person named Lisa and her niece Emma saw him and decided to help Nico find his bag and find his aunt Yara. Just as he thought he had found the taxi driver who took his bag but turns out his bag wasn't there. Then they decided to call Lisa's dad who is a police officer to help them find Nico's bag. However, it is very hard to find his bag because all of his items are in his bag. 

    Throughout the long journey, Nico met many new friends like Sebastian, Nahwin, Nina, Max, Tarek, and many other people who helped him throughout his search for his bag. He bonded with all of these people and managed to have fun and bonding conversations through each one of them. He was really helped by these people by doing everything that they could to find his missing bag and her aunt Yara.   

    Finally, after the long search, Nico found his aunt's address and met her aunt Yara. He was also very lucky to find his bag which was a small chance, as it was just there by the side of the street. 

    There is a lot of moral stories from this movie. However, the one that struck me the most was to never give up and always help others. In the movie, Lisa and her friends decided to help Nico even though he was just a stranger to them and even helped him find his bag and his aunt Yara. It was also not an easy feat, as in the movie it was told that Nico didn't have any address or phone number to find any way to find his bag, but they still insisted on helping Nico until they found both his bag and his aunt Yara which was really inspiring for me.

    In my opinion, this movie is very good for beginners like me who are learning German as the language is very simple and it has many variations of conversations throughout the whole movie. It teaches me to understand German culture, German language, German atmosphere, and so on. So for me, it was a very good and educational movie.

    However, in my opinion, the movie itself was a little bit far fetched. There were many things that I was so confused about. For example, I don't think any stranger could just be taken into their house. It just seems unrealistic for me. I don't know if it's really true and it could really happen or if it was just for the sake of the movie. For me, it's just so rare to find people like that who would just take a stranger inside their house and even stayed there.

    Also, for me, the plot was a little bit forced. What I mean is that there are several things in the movie that could have just been excluded and didn't have any significance to the plot or to the story. For example, the scene where Nico was cooking at Inge's house, where he also broke several dishes, that part was not important at all to the course of the movie.

My Goals My Ambitions

     In this post, we were told to tell you about our future, including our passion, talent, strength, etc.
    

        In the near future, I want to be a successful businessman. I've always liked the logic, the flow, and the impact of the economy and business to the world. I feel also that if I could study and become a successful businessman, I could understand everything about the economy in this world. I really liked it. I could understand more about the inner workings of something, especially if it relates to my hobby and interests. However, I feel that I didn't want to make economy a subject. Instead, I want to learn by myself and excite myself which is why I didn't take the social studies and instead took the science course.

        Besides that, I always wanted to be a good chess player too. I think that I should strengthen my passion for chess. I don't want it to be official though. I just wanted to be good at a game that I really liked and master all of my passions and strengths. If I could do that then I probably could win a few tournaments maybe and win some of those. However, like I said before, I don't want chess to be my focus and main job in my future.

        Another thing I wanted to be in my near future is to become a good cyclist too. Since I was small I've always liked cycling and that is my favorite hobby. However, just like chess, I don't want to pursue a career in cycling. I just want to be a good cyclist and cycle hundreds of miles everywhere I go.
        I was just the type of person that just couldn't stop until I become a professional in whatever my passion is. I think that it's just my nature. So I hope that I could become a professional in my near future and become the best in all my passions, and not just a hobby.

        Of course, I've always wanted to make my parents proud. I wanted to become a responsible man and to make my parents proud is just such a good thing for me to do. I hope that through all of my passions and careers I could give my parents happiness and easiness in their lives. 

         

Giving and Asking Opinions

     This week, we are tasked to make another dialogue but this time about opinions. So here is my dialogue.

Steven: Hello Chris. What's that on your phone?

Chris: Oh hi Steven. It's just a picture of a suit I'm considering. What do you think?

Steven: It's for the prom right? I think that suit is too colourful. It has a lot of colours and patterns which is not suitable for the prom. Do you have any other thoughts?

Chris: Actually I was thinking of this brown suit. What do you think?

Steven: In my opinion, that brown suit doesn't look that well in you. Why don't you try another one?

Chris: Well, I do have this casual black suit. What do you think?

Steven: I believe that black suits you well. I feel that it makes you look more manly.

Chris: Oh yeah. I think so too. Thanks, Steven.

Steven: You're welcome. 

Offer and Suggestion

We are asked to make a dialogue including an offer and a suggestion using the topics our teacher has decided.

Max:   Hey, Steve. I saw you all by yourself, so I came here. Why do you look so serious?

Steve: Oh hey Max. I was just wondering about myself. You know we recently got our reports right?

Max:   Yeah. How was yours?

Steve: Well, I didn’t do so well in my subjects. Even though I tried hard to study, it just won’t stick in to my head.

Max:  Well. Um, did you try another method of learning, like using video perhaps? Or do you want me to lend you my notes?

Steve: It’s not the problem. It’s just that I feel like school is pointless. I don’t think that school is very useful to my career in the future. I’ve always wanted to be a professional musician. But in school there are no subjects related to serious and deep learning about music.

Max:  Well, I think that even though you wanted to be a musician, you must be educated enough to have the necessary knowledge before you start working.

Steve: Well, I guess you’re right. What do you want to be in the future?

Max:   Well I still don’t know. I like to think a lot though, using strategic and critical thinking to solve different kinds of problems.

Steve: Well since you helped me with my situation. May I suggest a job for you?

Max:   Oh yeah sure. What do you suggest?

Steve: I suggest you become an expert mathematician. You’ve always like math right?

Max:   Oh yeah. Why did I think so hard? Thanks a lot dude.